EncoreMenu:

May 9, 2010
MOTHER'S DAY CONCERT
Wayzata Community Church

Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Commemorations

Children's March - Percy Grainger
Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon - Percy Grainger
Molly On The Shore - Percy Grainger

"Behold, A Rose Is Blooming"
(from Three Chorale Preludes, Op. 122, No. 8) -
Johannes Brahms/J. Boyd/Fennell

L'Inglesina (The Little English Girl) Syphonic March- Davide Delle Cese
Flourish For Wind Band - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Stephen Foster/Donald Hunsberger
Fairest of the Fair - John Philip Sousa
Duet from "Lakme" - Leo Delibes/James Curnow
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral - Richard Wagner/Lucien Cailliet

 

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tartan High School Auditorium

MusicConnect Performance - with -
Tartan Senior High School & Wooodbury High School
Jerry Luckhardt, Tony Didier and Brent Comeau, conductors

MusicConnect Performance:
Dedications

Monument Fanfare and Tribute - Philip Rothman
First Suite in Eb Major, Op. 28 - Gustav Holst
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations, Op. 36) - Edward Elgar
Metroplex (Three Postcards from Manhattan) - Robert Sheldon

 

November 14, 2009
Trinity Lutheran Church Stillwater
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Jack Hughes* - Charles B. Olson Composition Winner


December 5, 2009
Gethsemane Episcopal Church Minneapolis
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Celebrations

A Dakota Rhapsody - Mark Camphouse
After Rain (premiere)- Jack Hughes*
Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed
Jazz Suite No. 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich/Johan de Meij
Brasiliana - Joao Guilherme Ripper
Moon By Night- Jonathan Newman
In The Bond Concert March - David J. Borsheim

 

October 4, 2009
First Lutheran Church Columbia Heights
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Wendy Zaro-Mullins, mezzo-soprano

October 10, 2009
Normandale Lutheran Church Edina
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Wendy Zaro-Mullins, mezzo-soprano

Meditations

Sandburg Reflections for Mezzo-Soprano and Wind Ensemble - Lewis J. Buckley
Russian Funeral Music for Brass and Percussion - Benjamin Britten
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Elliot Del Borgo
At Morning's First Light - David Gillingham
The Leaves Are Falling - Warren Benson
Alleluia Laudamus Te - Alfred Reed

 

April 26, 2009
Wayzata Community Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Music Of The Americas

Smetana Fanfare - Karel Husa
Divertimento for Band, Op. 42 - Vincent Persichetti
Homecoming - Alex Shapiro
Allegro con fuoco from Suite in D major for Ten Winds - Arthur Bird
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein arr. Ian Polster
Danza Finale from Estancia Dances - Alberto Ginastera

 

March 1, 2009
St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

SYM-PHON-I-A:
The Sounding of All Voices Together!

Allegro  from Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K388 (384a) - W. A. Mozart
Canzon Primi Toni from the Sacrae Symphoniae - Giovanni Gabrieli
Festive Overture, Op. 96 - Dmitri Shostakovich, trans. Donald Hunsberger
Cathedrals - Kathryn Salfelder
Prelude and Aztec Dance from La Fiesta Mexicana - H. Owen Reed
Trauersinfonie - Richard Wagner, ed. Michael Votta & John Boyd

 

November 16, 2008
Guardian Angels Catholic Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Music For A Grand Space

Italian in Algiers - Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Cailliet
Tirana - Carol Barnett
Scenes from “The Louvre” - Norman Dello Joio
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen, arr. Reynolds
Rocky Point Holiday (1969) - Ron Nelson
Bogoroditse Devo from All Night Vigil Op. 37 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, arr. Salzman

 

October 4, 2008
Trinity Lutheran Church Stillwater
Encore Wind Ensemble with Valley Chamber Chorale
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Earth Songs

The Hounds of Spring - Alfred Reed
Acrostic Song from Final Alice - David Del Tredici
Country Gardens - Percy Grainger
Symphony No. 7 “A Sea Symphony” - Howard Hanson
The Promise of Living - Aaron Copland, arr. Duffy
Shenandoah - Dean Sorenson

 

May 10, 2008
Phipps Center for the Performing Arts - Hudson, WI
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Carolyn Pratt, soprano

American Masters

Celebrations - John Zdechlik
A Letter from Sullivan Ballou - John Kander
Suite from The Red Pony - Aaron Copland
Chester Overture for Band - William Schuman
Mother Earth Fanfare - David Maslanka
After A Gentle Rain - Anthony Iannaccone
Westside Story - Leonard Bernstein
Country Band March - Charles Ives

 

April 24, 2008
White Bear Lake High School South Campus
Jerry Luckhardt & Robert Rantanen, conductors
Charles Lazarus, trumpet

MusicConnect Performance

Celebrations - John Zdechlik
After A Gentle Rain - Anthony Iannaccone
An Original Suite - Gordon Jacob
Carnival of Venice - Jean Baptiste Arban
Mother Earth Fanfare - David Maslanka
Chester Overture for Band - William Schuman
Easter Monday on the White House Lawn - John Philip Sousa
Whiz Bang - Shelley Hanson

 

March 9, 2008
St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Chamber Music Series

Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare - Richard Strauss
Eclogues for Flute, English Horn and Guitar - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Premier Quartor Op. 53 - Jean Baptiste Singelee, arr. Jean Marie Londeix
Concerto for Oboe Op. 7, No. 3 - Tomaso Albinoni, arr. Dave Borsheim
Four Preludes Op. 38 - Dmitri Kabalevski, arr. Jeff Funk
Clapping Music - Steve Riech
Fanfare for Barcs - Kerry Turner
Serenade Op. 7 - Richard Strauss
Solo for Double Bass with Woodwind Quintet - Richard Caselli
Symphony for Winds - Franz Schubert, arr. V. Reynolds
Konigsmarsch - Richard Strauss, arr. R. Barrett

 

February 10, 2008
Stillwater High School
Dr. Mary K. Schneider, guest conductor

Seasons of Change

Toccata Marziale - Ralph Vaughn Williams
The Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53 - Benjamin Britten
Strange Humors - John Mackey
As the scent of spring rain... - Jonathan Newman
Four Scottish Dances - Malcolm Arnold
BSO Forever March - Leonard Bernstein

 

November 11, 2007
King of Kings Lutheran Church Woodbury
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Carolyn Pratt, soprano

A Veteran's Day Remembrance

A 19th Century View of The Star Spangled Banner - Smith/Gottschalk, trans. Butler
The Washington Post - John Philip Sousa ed. Fennell
Suite from The Red Pony - Aaron Copland
The Melody Shop - Karl King arr. Glover
A Letter From Sullivan Ballou - John Kander
Commando March - Samuel Barber
Liberty Fanfare - John Williams arr. Curnow
Armed Forces - The Pride of America! - Larry Clark & Greg Gilpin
Stars & Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa

 

October 28, 2007
St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church Music Series
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Steve Newbrough, guitar
James Benhardus, 2007 CBO Young Composers Winner

Musical Miniatures

Sea Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Danses Espagnoles - Enrique Granados
Five Miniatures, Op. 52 (1929) - Joaquin Turina
A Night Voyage to the Moon - James Benhardus
Suite from The Red Pony - Aaron Copland

 

April 29, 2007
Trinity Lutheran Church Stillwater
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Dances and Pictures

Selections from the Danserye - Tielman Susato
Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky

 

March 20, 2007
All Saints Catholic Church
Encore with Lakeville South High School Band
Jerry Luckhardt & John Bina, conductors
Carolyn Pratt, soprano

MusicConnect Performance

Folk Song Suite - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Io Son L'umile Ancella - Francesco Celia, trans. Luckhardt
If My Friends Could See Me Now - Warren Barker
Cartoon - Paul Hart

 

February 15, 2007
MMEA Mid-Winter Clinic
Jerry Luckhardt & Shelley Hanson, conductors
Carolyn Pratt, soprano
Elbert Liu, 2006 CBO Young Composers Winner

Celebrating Past, Present & Future

Colas Breugnon Overture, Op. 24 - Kabalevsky
Revolvz - Elbert Liu
Io Son L'umile Ancella - Francesco Celia, trans. Luckhardt
Abanian Dance - Shelley Hanson
Capriccio from Scarlatti, Op. 17 - Shostakovich
Short Symphony - Libby Larsen

 

November 19, 2006
Wayzata Community Church Music Series
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Tony Didier, trumpet

Variations On America

Overture to Candide - Leonard Berstein
American Elegy - Frank Ticheli
Short Symphony - Libby Larsen
Stars In A Velvety Sky - Herbert Clark
Variations on “America” - Charles Ives
Suite of Old American Dances - Robert Russell Bennett

 

October 29, 2006
St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Tony Didier, trumpet

A Children's Concert

On The Mall - Franko Goldman
Disney Around the World - James Christensen
October - Eric Whitacre
Amparita Roca - Jaime Texidor
Stars In A Velvety Sky - Herbert Clark
Pirates of the Caribbean - A Symphonic Portrait - Klaus Bedelt, arr. Ted Ricketts
“Cake Walk” from Suite of Old American Dances - Robert Russell Bennett
Barnum and Bailey's Favorite - Karl King

 

October 17, 2006 - 7:30pm
Encore with Osseo High School Band
Jerry Luckhardt & Stephen Boulka, conductors

MusicConnect Performance

Overture to Candide - Leonard Bernstein
October - Eric Whitacre
Suite of Old American Dances - Robert Russell Bennett
Barnum and Bailey's Favorite - Karl King

 

May 14, 2006
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

In Springtime

Octet for Wind Instruments - Igor Stravinsky
To Venture into the Realm of the Unknown - Kathryn Salfelder
Overture for Winds, Op. 24 - Felix Mendelssohn
Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

 

March 16, 2006
Burnsville Senior High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

BandQuest

Rhythm Stand - Jennifer Higdon
Old Churches - Michael Colgrass
Hambone - Libby Larsen
To Venture into the Realm of the Unknown - Kathryn Salfelder
Mosaic - Steven Paulus
Alligator Alley - Michael Daugherty

 

February 4, 2006
Chautauqua Fine Arts Center
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Anna Wytko, alto saxophone

Freedom Dreams

Freedom Dreams - Jennifer Higdon
Symphony No. 6 - Vincent Persichetti
Serenade for Alto Saxophone and Band - Frank Bencrisciutto
To Venture into the Realm of the Unknown - Kathryn Salfelder
George Washington Bridge - William Schuman

 

November 13, 2005
Gustavus Aldolphus College
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

British Classics

Earl of Oxford March from “William Byrd Suite” - Gordon Jacob
The Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53 - Benjamin Britten
First Suite in Eb Major, Op. 28a - Gustav Holst
Rhosymedre - Ralph Vaughan Williams
British Eighth March - Zo Elliot

 

October 9, 13 & 16, 2005
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
White Bear Lake High School
Cambridge-Isanti High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Kathryn Salfelder, 2005 CBO Young Composers Winner

MusicConnect Performance:
Old, New, Borrowed & Blue

Konigsmarsch - Richard Strauss
Four Scottish Dances - Malcolm Arnold
To Venture into the Realm of the Unknown - Kathryn Salfelder
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral - Richard Wagner
Komm’, Susser Tod (Come Sweet Death) - J.S. Bach, trans. Alfred Reed
Blue Shades - Frank Ticheli

 

August 7, 2005
Lake Harriet Band Shell
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Carolyn Pratt, soprano

Familiar Favorites

Flourish for Wind Band - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key
On the Mall - Edwin Franko Goldman
Nessun Dorma - Giacomo Puccini
All the Things You Are - Jerome Kern
Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli
The Music Man - Meredith Wilson
New York: 1927 - Warren Barker
Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 – Antonin Dvorak
America the Beautiful - Samuel Ward, arr. Carmen Dragen
Americans We - Henry Fillmore
Stars & Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa

 

May 13, 2005
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Dick Wyland & Jan Scholl, clarinet

Musical Wildflowers

Symphony in Bb (Mvmt 1) - Paul Hindemith
Sparkle - Shafer Mahoney
Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Grainger
Concert Piece No. 2 - Felix Mendelssohn
Traffic - Ned Rorem

 

April 4, 2005
North Branch High School
Jerry Luckhardt & Barry Zumwalde, conductors
Dick Wyland & Jan Scholl, clarinet

MusicConnect Performance

Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Grainger
Concert Piece No. 2 - Felix Mendelssohn
Albanian Dance - Shelley Hanson

 

February 6, 2005
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Composer’s Voice:
Music of Samuel Hazo & Shelley Hanson

Diamond Fanfare - Samuel Hazo
Their Blossom’s Down - Samuel Hazo
Voices of the Sky - Samuel Hazo
Patapan - Shelley Hanson
Islas y Montanas - Shelley Hanson
La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Cartula - Shelley Hanson
Volver a la Montaña - Shelley Hanson
Seis Manuel - Shelley Hanson
Albanian Dance - Shelley Hanson
Patapan - Shelley Hanson

 

November 14, 2004
Rosemount United Methodist Church
Encore with RUMC Chancel Choir
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Tami Luckhardt, music director

Centuries of Winds II

Twelve Dances from "The Danserye" - Tielman Susato
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen, ed. Reynolds
Variants on a Medieval Tune - Norman Dello Joio
Alleluia - Randall Thompson, orch. Buckley
Sonata for Wind Orchestra - Artun Hoinic
Shenandoah - Dean Sorenson
Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" - Jaromir Weinberger, arr. Bainum

 

November 1, 2004
Buffalo High School
Jerry Luckhardt & Lee Kjesbo, conductors

MusicConnect Performance

Twelve Dances from "The Danserye" - Tielman Susato
Sonata for Wind Orchestra - Artun Hoinic
Theme and Variations for Full Band, Op. 43a - Arnold Schönberg
Pineapple Poll - Arthur Sullivan

 

October 10, 2004
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Artun Hoinic, 2004 CBO Composers Winner

Centuries of Winds I

Twelve Dances from the "Danseyre" - Tielman Susato
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen, arr. Reynolds
Theme and Variations Op. 43a - Arnold Schönberg
Sonata for Wind Orchestra - Artun Hoinic
Variants on a Medieval Tune - Norman Dello Joio
Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" - Jaromir Weinberger, arr. Bainum

 

May 7, 2004
Wayzata Community Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Foreign Sketches

Procession of the Nobles - Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Leidzen
Volver a la Montaña - Shelley Hanson
Paris Sketches - Martin Ellerby
Little Symphony for Winds - Franz Schubert, arr. Reynolds
Irish Tune from County Derry - Percy Grainger

 

April 15, 2004
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Charles B. Olson & Shelley Hanson, guest conductors
Eugene Rosseau, alto saxophone

MENC National Biennial In-Service Conference

Southern Harmony - Donald Grantham
Volver a la Montaña - Shelley Hanson
Diversion - Bernard Heiden
Stardust - Hoagie Carmichael
Ye Banks & Braes o' Bonnie Doon - Percy Grainger
Slavonic Dance Op. 72, No. 7 - Antonin Dvorak

 

March 8, 2004
Roseville Area High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

MusicConnect Performance:
American Landscapes

Southern Harmony - Donald Grantham
Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli
A Lincoln Portrait - Aaron Copland
Turkey in the Straw from An American Song Set - Joe Kreines

 

February 8, 2004
St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Encore Wind Ensemble with Grand Symphonic Winds
Jerry Luckhardt & Matthew George, conductors

A Musical Exchange

Scherzo alla Marcia from Symphony No. 8-  Ralph Vaughan Williams
Flourish for Glorious John - Ralph Vaughan Williams, orch. Boyd
Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon - Percy Grainger
Second Suite in F Major - Gustav Holst
Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger

 

November 17, 2003 & February 8, 2004
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Charles B. Olson, guest conductor

MusicConnect Performance

Scherzo alla Marcia from Symphony No. 8 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Flourish for Glorious John - Ralph Vaughan Williams, orch. Boyd
Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon - Percy Grainger
Second Suite in F Major - Gustav Holst
Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger

 

October 23, 2003
Burnsville High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Stuart Breczinski, 2003 CBO Young Composers Winner

MusicConnect Performance

Festive Overture - Dmitri Shostakovich, Donald Hunsberger
Ricecare a 6 - J.S. Bach, arr. McAllister, orch. Fennell
Puszta (4 Gypsy Dances) - Jan van der Roost
Clipper - Stuart Breczinski

 

May 15, 2003
Jefferson High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

MusicConnect Performance

Canzona per Sonora No. 2 - Giovanni Gabrieli
Divertimento in Eb Major - W.A. Mozart
First Suite in Eb, Op. 28 - Gustav Holst
Postcard - Frank Ticheli

 

April 1 &  April 6, 2003
Mahtomedi H.S. & Benson Great Hall
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Dick Wyland, clarinet

Time in the Winds: A Musical Informance

Serenade in E Flat Major, K.375 - Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Clarinet - Rimsky-Korsakoff
First Suite in Eb - Gustav Holst
Postcard to Meadville, PA - Frank Ticheli
Slavonic Dance No. 72 - Antonin Dvorak

 

February 27 & March 6, 2003
Anoka High School & St. Francis High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

MusicConnect Performance:
International Amour

Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland
Quintet, Op. 5 No. 43 - Carl Nielsen
Suite Francaise - Darius Milhaud
Cenas Brasileiras - Ney Rosauro
English Dances - Malcolm Arnold
Danza Final from Estancia (Malambo) - Alberto Ginastera
Slava - Leonard Bernstein

 

October 27, 2002
Benson Great Hall
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Jenny Hanson, flute

The Twilight Labyrinth:
Music of Mystery & Imagination

Chorale Preludes - Johannes Brahms
"Nimrod" from Enigma Variations - Edward Elgar
Incantation & Dance - John Barnes Chance
Night Soliloquy - Kent Kennan
Ghost Train - Eric Whitacre
"March" from Symphonic Metamorphoses - Paul Hindemith
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine - John Philip Sousa

 

April 7 & April 14, 2002
Benson Great Hall & First Lutheran Church
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Seeing is Believing:
Music Inspired by the Visual Arts

October - Eric Whitacre
Scenes from "The Louvre" - Norman Dello Joio
Pictures at an Exhibition - Modeste Moussorgsky

 

February 28 & March 1, 2002
Ted Mann Concert Hall & Tartan High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Something Old, Something New:
Selections from Boosey & Hawkes

El Salon Mexico - Aaron Copland
La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Cartula - Shelley Hanson
Flag of Stars: Salute to America - Gordon Jacob

 

October 21 & October 25, 2001
Benson Great Hall & Burnsville High School
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor

Dance Music

La Procession du Rocio - Joaquin Turina, trans. Alfred Reed
Suite of Old American Dances - Robert Russell Bennett
Courtly Dances from Gloriana - Benjamin Britten, arr. Jan Bach
Adagio for Wind Instruments - Joaquin Rodrigo
Shepherd's Hey - Percy Grainger

 

April 22, 2001
Benson Great Hall
Jerry Luckhardt, conductor
Marshall Urban, baritone

American Composer Concert

Celebration Overture - Paul Creston
Elegy for a Young American - Ronald Lo Presti
Children's March - Percy Grainger
Songs of Abelard - Norman Dello Joio
Blue Shades - Frank Ticheli
Divertimento - Vincent Persichetti

 

February 15, 2001
Charles B. Olson and Jerry Luckhardt, conductors

MMEA Performannce Minneapolis Convention Center

Icarus and Daedalus - Keith Gates
Courtly Dances from Gloriana - Benjamin Britten, arr. Jan Bach
Suite of Old American Dances: Cake Walk - Robert Russell Bennett
La Procession du Rocio - Joaquin Turina, trans. by Alfred Reed
Texas Promenade - David Holsinger

 

November 20, 2000
St. Anthony High School
Charles B. Olson, conductor

Procession of Nobles - Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Leidzen
Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed
A Rhapsody on Christmas Carols - Claude T. Smith
Christmas Cameos - William Rhoads
Polonaise from the Opera “Christmas Night” - Rimsky-Korsakov
In the Bleak Midwinter - Gustav Holst, arr Robert W. Smith
There Shall a Star from Jacob - Felix Mendelssohn, arr. Bruce Houseknecht
Silver Sleigh -  Caesar Giovannini, arr. Robinson
Train Ride from “Winter Holiday” -  Sergei Prokofieff, arr. Cable
Christmas Triptych -  Robert L. Leist
A Festival of Carols - Warren Barker

 

October 15, 2000
Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor

Eternal Father, Strong to Save - Smith
Alleluia - Thompson/Buckley
Icarus & Daedalus Fantasy - Gates
March "The Southerner" - Alexander/Bainum
Suite for Winds - Gorb
Carmina Burana - Orff/Krance
Tom Sawyer's Saturday - Dankworth
Texas Promenade - Holsinger

 

March 25 & March 26, 2000
Phipps Center for the Arts & Benson Great Hall
Jerry Luckhardt, guest conductor
Paul Kile, euphonium

Fanfare from "La Peri" - Paul Dukas
Early Light - Carolyn Bremer
Amazing Grace - William Himes, ed. Luis Maldonado
Chester - William Schuman
Suite Francaise - Darius Milhaud
Variations on "America" - Charles Ives, trans. William E. Rhoads
Morceau Symphonique - Allexandre Guilmant, arr. Wesley Shepard
Petite Symphonie - Charles Gounod
The Gallant Seventh - Sousa, ed. Fennell
Americans We - Henry Fillmore

 

February 26, 2000
Chautauqua Fine Arts Center
Wildwood Artist Series
Paul Neimisto, guest conductor

Spitfire - James Barnes
Hammersmith - Gustav Holst
Mock Morris - Percy Grainger, trans. Joseph Kreines
Old Wine and New Bottles - Gordon Jacob
An Original Suite - Gordon Jacob
Pineapple Poll - Arthur Sullivan, arr. MacKerras
Illyrian Dances - Guy Woolfenden
The Dam Busters - Eric Coates
March of the Mogul Emperor - Edward Elgar

 

October 17 & November 7, 1999
Benson Great Hall & Stillwater High School
John Zdechlik, guest conductor

The Glory of the Yankee Navy - Sousa
A Movement For Rosa - Mark Camphouse
Entry March Of The Boyars - Johan Halvorsen
Procession of the Nobles - Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Leidzen
Hats Off To Thee - John Zdechlik
Bugler's Holiday - Leroy Anderson, ed. Fennell
Prelude and Fugue - John Zdechlik
Celebrations - John Zdechlik
Invictus - Fucik

 

February 7 & March 14, 1999
St. Anthony High School & Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor

Fanfare from "La Peri" - Paul Dukas
L' Inglesina - D. Delle Cese
Hebrides Suite - Clare Grundman
Graceful Ghost Rag - William Bolcom, arr. Terry Smith
Canon for Percussion - Saul Goodman
Symphony #3 - Vittorio Giannini
Elegy for a Young American - Ronald Lo Presti
Trauersinfonie - Richard Wagner
The Incredible Flutist - Walter Piston, trans. Frank Erickson
First Suite in F - Thom Ritter George, ed. Mark Rogers
Melody Shop - K.L. King
Semper Fidelis - Sousa

 

November 8, 1998
Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor

Festive Overture - Dmitri Shostakovich, trans. Hunsberger
Amazing Grace - Frank Ticheli
March Electric - Giuseppe Creatore, arr. Leonard Falcone
A Tribute to Artie Shaw - arr. J. Christensen
Overture for Winds - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, arr. John Boyd
Irish Tune from County Derry – Percy Grainger, arr. Larry Daehn
Shepherd's Hey - Percy Grainger
Themes from "Green Bushes" - Percy Grainger, arr. Larry Daehn
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves - Michael Kamen, arr. Paul Lavender

 

March 22, 1998
Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor

Three Dances from Henry VIII - Sir Edward German, arr. Dale Casteel
The March from "1941" - John Williams, arr. Paul Lavender
Four Scottish Dances - Malcolm Arnold, arr. John Paynter
Slavonic Dance No. 8 - Antonin Dvorak, ed. Jack LaBauve
New Dance, Op. 18C - Wallingford Riegger
Lincoln Portrait - Aaron Copland, trans. Walter Beeler
Turkey in the Straw - Traditional, arr. Lewis J. Buckley
Chicago Tribune March - W. Paris Chambers, ed. John Boyd
Irish Washer Woman - Leroy Anderson

 

January 25, 1998
Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor
Julie Goos & Melissa Krohn, flute

Tulsa - Don Gillis, trans. Maurice Ford
Pavane for a Dead Princess - Maurice Ravel, trans. Jack LaBauve
Dance of the Spirits of Fire - Gustav Holst
Concerto in C for Two Flutes (Mvmt 1) - Franz Joseph Haydn, arr. M.L. Lake
Suite for Military Band from Sigurd Jorsalfar - Edvard Grieg, trans. Maj. Dale Harpham
The Cowboys - John Williams, arr. Jim Curnow
The Fairest of the Fair - Sousa, ed. Frederick Fennell
The Girl I Left - Leroy Anderson

 

October 5, 1997
Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor

American Overture - Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
Toccata and Fugue in D minor - J.S. Bach, trans. Erik Leidzen
Horns A' Plenty - Weldon Wilber and Paul Lavalle, ed. Marvin McCoy
Italian Polka - Sergei Rachmaninoff, ed. Erik Leidzen
Canzona - Perter Mennin
Suite of Old American Dances - R. R. Bennett
Who Puts His Trust In God Most Just - J.S. Bach, arr. James Croft
The Florentiner - Julius Fucik, arr. M.L. Lake, ed. Fennell
Rakes of Mallow - Leroy Anderson

 

February 23, 1997
Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor
Dick Wyland & Patricia West, clarinet

Colas Breugnon Overture - Dmitri Kabalevsky, trans. Walter Beeler
Enigma Variations, Opus 36 - Edward Elgar, arr. Earl Slocum
Concertpiece No. 2, Opus 114 - Felix Mendelssohn, arr. Harry Gee
A Somerset Rhapsody - Gustav Holst, trans. Clare Grundman
William Byrd Suite - Gordon Jacob
Symphonic Marches - Richard Rogers
Danzon - Leonard Berstein, arr. John Krance

 

September 15, 1996
Benson Great Hall
Charles B. Olson, conductor

INAUGURAL CONCERT

Liberty Fanfare - John Williams, arr. Jim Curnow
Symphony No. 6 for Band - Vincent Persichetti
British Eighth - Zo Elliott
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral - Wagner, trans. Lucien Cailliet
Scotch Strathspey and Reel - Percy Grainger, arr. Leroy Osmon
Konigsmarsch - Richard Strauss, arr. Roger Barrett
Porgy and Bess - George Gershwin, arr. Bob Lowden
Americans We - Henry Fillmore